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According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran plans to sign a preliminary $6 billion deal with Total SA on Tuesday to help develop an onshore gas field. The move by Total is the first return by a Western energy company since sanctions were lifted this year. Total was long one of the most active Western oil companies in Iran, and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants and facilities have raised suspicions about hacking potentially playing a role, with authorities saying that “viruses had contaminated” equipment at several of the affected complexes. Iran officially insists the six known blazes over the span of three months weren’t the result of a cyberattack. However, the ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s oil minister says his country would support any decision by the oil producing group of nations that seeks to stabilize the oil market, Iranian state TV reported on Tuesday. The remarks by the minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, came after talks with OPEC chief Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo on Tuesday in Tehran. According to Zangeneh, most OPEC ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Tuesday it would not grant visas to three U.S. congressmen opposed to the nuclear deal, calling their request to monitor the accord a “publicity stunt.” The three Republican lawmakers — Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Lee Zeldin of New York — all voted against the deal and are ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official IRNA news agency says the Indian prime minister has arrived in Tehran, the first such visit in over a decade. The Sunday report said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with President Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian leaders during his two-day visit. The two countries are planning to develop Chabahar port in southeast Iran, ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that the country’s parliament has approved a $97 billion budget for the current year. The Tuesday report says that the new budget allows the government to set the price of oil at $40 a barrel and to export 2.25 million barrels per day. Iran says it has increased its ...

PARIS (AP) — Iran won’t consider a production freeze until it reaches its pre-sanctions level of output of 4.2 million barrels a day, a senior energy official said Thursday. Mehdi Hosseini, who heads the oil contracts revision committee at Iran’s Petroleum Ministry, said a freeze at anything less than that would be a continuation of the sanctions imposed on his ...

U.S. stocks moved higher in morning trading Monday, recovering from an early slump after major oil-producing nations failed to hammer out a deal over the weekend to cut oil production, sending oil prices lower. Consumer discretionary and financial companies were among the biggest gainers. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 45 points, or 0.3 percent, to 17,943 as ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait’s OPEC governor is saying members of the oil cartel and other producing countries likely will reach a deal later this month for a production freeze as crude prices sit below $40 a barrel. The state-run Kuwait News Agency quoted Nawal al-Fuzai on Tuesday as saying that oil ministers of OPEC nations and several non-OPEC nations showed interest ...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States on Wednesday urged the U.N. atomic agency to continue providing details on Iran’s compliance with a deal crimping its nuclear work amid Western concerns that the agency’s newest report is too light on specifics. Until now, such concerns have mostly been voiced privately. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday he is “confident ...

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